la/ost thread: >>3877485funnily enough, we were 1 img away from making a new thread.ITT: any western ip.refrain from posting for properties with their own threads
>>3914656asummerrae ky-jane
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>>3914656post 5-6 images u dumbo
>>3914660Working on it, sheesh.
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>>3914661hayamafair
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>>3914672Surprisingly little good art for him
>>3914675nobody reads comics anymore. finding art for niche favorites is hard and finding GOOD art is harder
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>>3914676
good timing OP, both the /cm/ thread and westaboo thread on /co/ ended not too long ago
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>>3914667That show was strange, in a good way
Forgot the artists name
idk if the other peri anons fun the old thread are still around
peri peri peri
>>3914944hello mellow
did anyone watch the tdi reboot?
>>3914656If anyone is interested in seeing the posts on the last thread, refer to this ant-image here, 1st part of 2.The pics are all thumbnails, but I might have a few of them, so if you'd like to have a version not for ants and don't know where to look, I might have a copy, holler away
>>3914976I would've uploaded it in PDF form, but with the sketchy link I was sending, it kinda looked like I was gonna give you guys a virus, and the non-sketchy links were making me paranoid about giving away personal information
>>3914714>>3914715I was weidly into Eddy's Brother some years back, I blame him and Greed FMA for my smug assholes with smooth voices fetish(btw do you happen to have the image that features him with long eyelashes? I could have sworn I've seen it but I can't find it anywhere)
>>3915073Sorry, I don't think I've seen that image, but good luck on finding it. Is it by the same artist that you posted?
>>3915073i think i have this one!!i followed this artist before they deleted their blog.here!
>>3915081No worries, but thanks for sharing yours!>>3915093It is! Thank you for the quick reply!What a bummer that the artist deleted their blog though, their work was so expressive. Do you remember what their blog / deviantarts name was?
>>3915093it was redsockheadd or something i don't really remember well, it was on tumblr onlyi have most of their art i can just share here, just one sec.
>>3915095here the artsaHR0cHM6Ly9waXhlbGRyYWluLmNvbS91L2RHNGh2TXMy
>>3915162Do you have a web address with those numbers? You are an angel anon!
>>3915240Dude? Base64 decode?
>>3915256Oops didn't know that was a thing, thank you!
>>3914944>>3914950>>3914953>>3915142Good to see you anons!I remembered /cm/ coming up in one of the /co/ threads, guess it shouldn't be too surprising
>>3914816dalisayjosev
cute
>>3914656youtu.be/6uiUYQIyRNo
I LOVE (love) Waylon Smithers jr.!!!
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>>>3915677, who is an actually attractive character gets ignored>>>3915681, who is an ugly fuck gets art
>>3915680>>3915681This is ironic, and I refuse to believe otherwise.Just look at the chin: he has Ariana's chin. This was done for a lark. Either they're making fun of those stupid "anime'd" redesigns of characters that don't resemble them at all, or ... well, there is no "or," I can't conceive of any other reason.
StellaChenYUIstealing this from the shota thread
>>3915733StellaChenYUI
>>3915402XxSuperJAZZxX
>>3914703igucciSomething called Toontown
>>3915747>Something called ToontownI feel like I aged 10 years just reading this
>>3914717>>3914720>>3914721>>3914722gen-toonun-genesis
>>3914950mmangopudding
>>3914745Eric Canete
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>>3914765>>3914766>>3914768>>3914770>>3914771At least Google Lens agrees with me that Corto Maltese looks like that guy from Golden Kamuy
>>3914956tianniunaihezi
>>3914895Uhhh_SNAPS
>>3915876liz-freemen
>>3915758lianmilanesa
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>>3915944JaegerSony
>>3915945JaegerSony Their Cosmo is way too sexy to be recognizable
CellyStars
>disheveled Perihnnnng
>>3915758Pls do not do this to Tintin, he's good Catholic boy
still mad that they were supposed to get an episode together but it got scrapped
>>3915974And that is supposed to dissuade, rather than motivate me?
>>3915717Yea there's a lot of ironic anime'd family guy art out there. I think it's meant to be a jab at south park fanartists
>>3916086why they did it to my boys... btw do you have a source for it?
>>3916112twitter.com/KyomaAkuma/status/1831033036806525344
artist: GrangerMonarque
>>3916199Hey, some Sylvie fanart I haven't seen yet, nice.Still holding out for a resurgence in art for Giovanni, since in retrospect, he was clearly the best thing about the show
>>3916204Gio is pretty cool but i have a weakness for fluffy haired twinks in glasses so Sylvie is my GOAT.Ironically i'm not very keen on Naven. He's kinda mid.
>>3916038AAAAHHHH WAT THA FUK
Anyone got any cute pics of Topher from the Clone High reboot?
>>3915755Trevor Goodchild
>>3916248WHAAAAAAAAAAT? WHAT'S WRONG??
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>>3916278You remember how they did that thing in cartoons where they suddenly draw a character hyperrealistically and it's terrifying?
Theyre both cute as hell.Im so fucking mad that neither of them appeared in the actual show. Artist is tyelprin on tumblr
>>3916561who they
>>3916835Shane and Tristan from the Twelve Forever pilot. Neither of them appear in the netflix show, which is sad cause they were both better characters than Esther and Todd
sporkkles-irl>>3916205Yeah, Naven feels kinda redundant and a bit of a retread given that Sylvie's around. There's also something about him that makes him feel like a self-insert OC.I was also initially into Sylvie the most among the cast, largely because of the design, but I now find him a bit half-baked for some reason that I can't quite put my finger on. I think it has something to do with why I eventually gravitated towards Giovanni: besides the obvious issue of greater entertainment value, Giovanni's whole schtick of wannabe bad guy turboautist with a baseball bat just feels so much more distinct and compelling.Sylvie feels more like a bit character, almost like Howie or Kronk. When they try to fit his whole child genius psychologist thing into a more main character role, it feels a little ... forced? I can't quite put my finger on why. It's strange, because I never had this issue with Percy, who is arguably more gimmicky and high-concept than Sylvie.For a vaaaguely similar reason, I was never too into Brendan making adult Molly a righteous radical leftie, since (1) I get the feeling that it wouldn't be very funny given the crews' sympathies, and (2) I feel like her whole schtick of Lisa Simpson but dark (interpret as you wish) would push her away from the college student idealism of radical Marxism and more towards the pragmatism of vicious technocrat statism. That's also more legit dark, so more in line with why I think she's funny. Also, I always liked the idea of Molly having a baby crush on Sylvie. Not for like shipping, I just thought it'd make for some cute interactions. And Sylvie's design is way too pretty for that not to translate in-universe, like c'mon.And while we're on the topic,I also dislike how they keep trying to milk Mira's narrative for pathos in a very obvious and treacly wayAnyway, I would've mentioned Ramsay along with Giovanni as a character whose schtick I am 100% behind, but uh, I wouldn't be interested in sex with Ramsay, so...
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>>3916909(Artist is figzicles on tumblr)YOU PUT INTO WORDS WHAT I SIMPLY COULD NOT REGARDING NAVEN. He def has self insert vibes and like... i usually don't mind self inserty characters but for some reason with Naven it rubs me the wrong way.I also totally get what you mean by Sylvie feeling more "half baked" than the rest of the cast, i THINK that's just an unfortunate consequence of Brendan not liking him that much compared to the other characters. He isnt exactly MC material but its okay. I still love my know it all geek son.Also Molly having a puppy crush on Sylvie is admittedly a cute thought. I actually used to kinda ship em but now i get the vibes that Molly doesnt like Sylvie as much as Sylvie likes Molly. Which is sad but fair, Molly has other friends that are closer to her.Also semi related to your molly tangent but ive had this weird... vibe? Regarding how Brendan writes Molly, especially in PoP. She never makes any mistakes or hurts others accidentally, she just gets hurt and either suffers or bites back. Which is fine but like... as much as i love Molly i feel like she could have been more compelling if she was allowed to make mistakes that werent just "i wont let my friends help me". Its like she isnt allowed to do anything wrong ever. And i get it, shes precious, but come on man....Also Gio is indeed fuckable.
>>3916977>frylock>not black
I've no idea who the artist is. But it's probably the best I've seen
>>3916925Sorry for the late reply, busy week.>usually don't mind self inserty charactersOf course, you're watching Epithet Erased: all the characters run the risk of being a little too self-inserty, given that the whole thing is based on a tabletop RPG session. But the thing I've noticed about Naven is how ... improbable his character is.Like, he's a CEO who's also an ageless megane twink with a Kardashian thigh gap who's also an awkward introvert English teacher who also has all the right opinions? That comes off a little contrived.The crucial thing is that lots of people on Twitter seem to think that he's Blaber's outright self-insert. It's crucial because that's the right direction, but inaccurate: he's not Blaber's Mary Sue, he's his puppet. He is the audience and writer surrogate, a morally upright person expressing both anger/frustration with and forgiveness for Lorelai, as well as empathy and clarity for Molly. He's the one to tell off Lorelai's entitled delulu ass, and he's also the one to try to help Molly by getting CPS involved. It's very fan fiction.He's also a puppet in the sense that he's nubile little toy for the writer to play with: pretty hair, pretty face, cute outfit to peel off, obedient bottom energy: you can sense all of that in his writing and design.Compare this to Giovanni, who arguably is an actual self-insert, but he doesn't have the Enoby Dark'ness vibes of Naven gives out (despite not quite being a self-insert) that some of the fanbase has already picked up on: Gio is an actual character with internality and a real POV, he isn't just a tool for the writer or the story, but his own separate person.
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>>3918218no way you are sexualizing the sunday funnies priest
>>3918222>sexualizingWhere did that come from? You are aware people can think characters without being a porn addict, right anon?
mutiniir mutinir>>3916925>Brendan not liking him that much compared to the other charactersOh, you get that, too?It's probably not a rare thing to sense, given how much of a spotlight he was given in Prison of Plastic: literally the nameless mugger had more screentime and plot significance.My issue with Sylvie is actually the general issue I have with EE: no tawhid.Unlike fellow RPG spin-off Unsounded, where the world and characters are fully realized and entirely coherent, it's much more obvious that EE was born of a shitposty RPG session, randomly mashing together improv ideas from a barely coordinated group of friends putting whatever dumb ideas come to mind on paper and rolling with it.Blaber has a good eye and ear for funny and charming little things and moments, but he seems to have a bit of an issue with tightening overarching narratives and casts. Were he a better writer, he wouldn't have so many major characters to be so out of place in a way that makes them come off as almost unnecessary. Even the presentation has issues: I think preserving the "character describing what they're doing" style inherent to RPGs was a terrible idea, especially when such a thing could be conveyed entirely by dialogue or the rudimentary quasi-animation EE has.I get that it's part of the visual and comedic appeal, but that appeal is blunted by how similar some of the designs are: in particular, Giovanni, Rick, Sylvie, and Naven have very similar silhouettes: reed-thin, big anime coat, big frizzy anime hair. You could easily fool someone into thinking Rick is Naven's Mr. Hyde, or that Naven and Sylvie are brothers. And I usually appreciate how the humor is often distinct between characters, but in the case of Naven and Sylvie, despite their strong differences, they come off as having a similar brand of fall-back quirky randomness native to Blaber's generation, which is also an issue with Blaber's prose in Prison of Plastic: so try-hard! so theater kid!
>>3918225>You are aware people can think characters without being a porn addict, right anon?/cm/ is a coomer board. Forget this board, though, this whole site caters to weabs, so naturally, it caters to the coomer-thinking that the industry nurtures
pumpkster>>3916925>>3918236Wait, wasn't I supposed to be talking about Sylvie?Right. Enough general complaints.Now that I've really thought about it, I've come to kinda hate how Blaber writes Sylvie.His concept has potential, but the characterization just doesn't work.It's really in the little things where he falls apart, and those little things are kinda really important, as his whole "I'm not a kid!" schtick is a very tired cliche.He's so one-note! His insecurity is so exaggerated that it has no intrigue, no allure. All the attempts at imbuing him with gravitas fail in my opinion, because it's all undermined by how transparent his whole schtick is as a character. When he drops the facade of being a grown-up and is revealed as just a kid, it just ... doesn't work. There was never any surprise to it. His facade never worked in the first place, and a lot of that is down to how whiny and nasal the delivery is, it's like he's asking me to stuff him in a locker. He creates no gap moe, because despite what he thinks, there is no gap to anyone, and I get it, it makes sense for the character, it's how a lot of kids actually are when they wanna be taken seriously, but what's in it for the audience? Why should we fawn over him, besides his beautiful design?If his voice already goes reeeee at the slightest provocation, how can we appreciate it when it finally cracks?And if you want zero-self-awareness teenage cringe, there's already Giovanni!
mutiniirmutinir>>3916925>>3918245I'm not suggesting that Sylvie go full kuudere, I just think he could be better realized if he could have a more solid facade, especially at first. Like, make him significantly more opaque as a character, more mysterious.Another issue that I think detracts from the interest his character could create is how safe he is. He's a very responsible psychiatrist! Where's the intrigue? I find that detracts from the sense of chaos his character could have.Like, compare him with Molly, who's this very sweet and innocent middle schooler who, like Sylvie, has also been shoved into adulthood. Unlike Sylvie, she has this deeply pervasive sense of ennui and outright sadness and barely-contained loathing and rage. Molly's very cute, but there's also something deeply wrong with her.Sylvie, for some reason, has none of that darkness to underlie the profound social maladjustment someone in his position should have. He's a very lonely boy under a lot of pressure to be perfect: that tends to create monsters. He also has little backstory to speak of besides not being an orphan, just having a bad family, but Blaber has no interest in exploring any of that: what the hell! It's so so odd for such a character whose very existence makes you ask .... what the hell happened here? Truly, Blaber's redheaded stepchild.15 years old, one of the world's most powerful Inscribed, and this insecure twerp is not completely power-tripping? This kid has a PhD when he should be in junior high, and he only has regular anxiety? Waste of potential!And Sylvie should really be more of a deuteragonist since his situation makes him such an interesting foil and friend to Molly, but honestly, I'm not sure the EE team knows how to explore character and theme without making it into a mental health PSA
sporegalaxysporesgalaxy>>3918253>>3916925Oh, and speaking of power-tripping, I also think he'd be more interesting if he was more ... mad scientist? Like, willing to toy with people psychologically. An ends justifies the means type of self-centered would make sense from someone whose power and intellect makes him so above others, even if the ends are just his scientific curiosity ... and/or sadistic entertainment. I'd like him way more if he had a more prominent sense of malice, more glee in destroying others. Not only would that give him, like, an arc, and more dramatic friction with Molly and Giovanni in the museum, but also ... it's way more fun. For example, for his battle with Mera, it'd be really interesting if he used his knowledge for evil, and tried to go on the offense and break her with words, despite knowing her condition, because the way he sees it, the ends of saving the day justifies the means. I would've gasped! That fluffy bitch!And while it seems to work a little, Mera gets wise to his angle and knocks his ass, and now that he's gotten to her, she's really lost it, and the fight's stakes are so much higher, so much more dangerous for Molly and Giovanni.Not only would that have been more interesting from a narrative and character development angle, but also just more entertaining. Their fight in actuality was a big nothing, when, as the 2 most powerful Inscribed in that place, it could've been really awesome.So, yeah, to sum up ... what the fuck, Blaber, why did you do so much nothing with Sylvie?
>>3914703>>3914705>>3914709Wow, I was never expecting to see toontown here. You think we'd be welcome in the robot threads?
incest!!!
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recently got into this show since it's free to watch on plutotv and YouTube. Lee is a cute
>>3919080kirakurryart
>>3919093xenvita xenvitavt
>>3919079>>3919080>>3919093name of said show?
>>3920103Detentionaire!
sad pathetic old men
>>3916925i dunno who this boy is but he looks right up my alleyi love pathetic arrogant nerdy boys with serious issues
>>3921544He doesn't have any particular issues in the canon that I would call serious, the plot would have to be invested in him for that to be the case.He should have some, though, he's in a situation that would drive anyone his age insane.
>>3922050I LOVE OLD MAN INCEST
>>3922105Old Man Sex
>>3922206ryokutya1107 buntya1107 Pixiv ID 3119296
>>3918256God you are so correct. I dont know who you are, stranger, but i would love to meet you properly someday. It's so RARE to find anyone in the EE fandom with decent opinions...Apologies for the late reply, i keep being unable to access the site :(
>>3915758TIN TIN UPSKIRTTIN TIN UPSKIRT
rheasimone1>>3924476Appreciate that you think so! I'd been planning on saying more, but as mentioned earlier, I've been a little busy. You're right in your presumption, the fandom doesn't make much in the way of interesting fics or headcanons, and there's not even that much fanart. I kinda attribute the former issue to EE not really attracting the kind of crowd that's willing to do anything even borderline risky with its hyperfixations.Before I eventually get around to more fun things to talk about (like Giovanni), a minor issue I have that's kinda similar with Sylvie is, oddly enough, with Mera: she's not nearly as compelling a dramatic character as the story intends her to be, and not nearly as much as she could be. I don't like how they kept shoving her backstory in our face. That's her one thing, and they run it into the ground so much that it's actually hard to take seriously. Yeah, yeah, she was born with paper skin and glass bones, we get it, it's a meme. She's not even anywhere close to a real bad guy whose morality is complicated since her initial plan didn't even involve all that much morally questionable stuff besides breaking into a museum and stealing some shit and beating up everyone who tried to get in her way. That's nothing given her chronic pain, there's not much real moral internal conflict that an audience would find interesting to forgive and sympathize with.It would've been way better had they kept her backstory as a fairly obvious thing that was more hinted at instead of putting it at the forefront so much in giving us that kinda useless flashback in the beginning of that one episode.Zora does not have that much baggage or moral complexity, but there was a lot more texture and interest to her as a character for the audience to watch, and she being the villain is among the many reasons the second arc in the desert town was so much more fun to watch than the first in the museum.
>>3925726GOD YEAH. Mera sucks as an antag, Zora is much better and cooler.I much preferred the AC dynamic of Mera and Sylvie where it was a mentor betraying her protege. Now the whole personal aspect is gone. And i find it hard to believe that Sylvie would believe mera so quickly too. It would have been much more interesting if mera manipulated him by stroking his ego and making him believe that she was geniunely interested in him as a psychologist or whatever. Kinda like Molly, actually! That would be a neat paralel.Do you have any social media i can follow you on? I'd love to properly meet you! If youre comfy with giving out your discord id love to talk to you there too!
mangakanosorrow>>3926047I'm kind of an old, so my social media is largely limited to like ... LinkedIn-y stuff, so you're not missing much. I'm usually around these threads though, and respond to just about anything that's even plausibly in good faith!Anyway,>AC dynamicOHHH.This gives a lot of context to Mera and Sylvie being pit against each other in the museum. I imagine it must've been more cool to people who actually saw AC. Which I guess kinda impinges on Blaber's point about how we aren't supposed to not know anything about AC, but yeah, I can't harsh on the creators too much for getting lost in the sauce like that. No, wait, yes, I can.Anyway, your mention of this "mentor/protege" thing sent me down a bit of a rabbit hole: I know next to nothing about AC besides what I've seen of it on the wikis and Tumblr, but from the little I've seen, Mera and Sylvie's arcs seem a little more compelling, Mera's, for lack of melodrama, Sylvie's, for just being ... generally more compelling storywise, or at least a little more interesting than the Wishdotcom-Arcane arc Blaber dealt us.Apparently, AC Sylvie was kind of completely different? Someone on Tumblr called him the most "generic anime protag," which kinda checks out, given his increasing power and edginess turning to villainy, though given the vibe of AC as a whole and the detail of Mera barely even remembering him while he was sperging out at her, it seems like it was played largely for laughs -- which seems like the right move, given that the EE team's approach to drama for side characters seems to be intentionally overbearing if Mera is to be held as an example. You just compare that to Molly, whose freakshow home life was so compelling despite barely being shown until PoP.
>>3926047>>3926457It's interesting how Blaber chose to both give depth to Sylvie while also sidelining him from the main plot, because he achieved neither: his new backstory and motivation is kinda cliche and much less emotionally charged than in AC, and despite this, Sylvie is probably the series' 3rd most recognizably popular character inside and outside of the fandom, probably because of how nice his design is.But yeah, back to Mera and Sylvie.>the whole personal aspect is goneThat seems to me intentional.It looks like Mera deceiving Sylvie in EE is a parallel of her betraying him in AC. That'd be a kinda shitty substitute, but not sure it'd be a fair assessment to make since their relationship (as well as their places in the story individually) is designed to be a lot less prominent than in AC, so this might as well be just a callback. Still, them not having any kind of relationship makes their interactions less interesting, and, as in AC, Sylvie comes off having lost more than Mera here (lol) since, as previously mentioned, so much of what moulded AC Sylvie's personality and character trajectory was his mostly one-sided relationship with Mera, and without that, as a side character designed to occupy a minor role in the story (as Blaber himself noted in a text post on his Tumblr just a few days back), what he was left to be, friendless sheltered arrogant boygenius, was decidedly uninteresting.Which isn't necessarily all he could've been, since there's actually a lot that could've been done with that, even given his consignment to second banana status, but the EE team just seemed to think it wasn't worth expending that much brainwork to make him more interesting, which I really think is not an exaggeration: they seem to specifically avoid mention of his family!I saw a Tumblr express confusion: most of the other minor-age charas have mentioned their family at one point or another, including CAR CRASH. They specifically avoided this for Sylvie!
sporesgalaxy>>3926458>>3926047Genuinely baffling move to me, to seemingly avoid all mention of his family. It's why I genuinely think the policy is to avoid giving Sylvie too much focus, which I know sounds like such a deranged stan thing to say, but hear me out: so far, all the Word of God I've collated about House Ashling is that (1) AC Sylvie's uncle is some kind of ghost hunter/fucker, and, somehow more intriguing than that (2) ... he doesn't seem to like those guys all that much.Big hmm! You'd think that were one interested in making the arrogant 15-year old child prodigy with multiple degrees more interesting than Jimmy Neutron as a Reddit noob who makes relatable millennial jokes about his mental health for precious updoots, the first thing they would think of is exploring his apparently rocky family life and background, but apparently not!So yeah, I hope I don't sound very nutty when I say that it's like all the complexity allowed for his character is as an adjunct to Molly's narrative: and I think that they're hobbling even that with this direction! But that's for another time.>Mera sucks as an antagYeah, though I'd like to specify that I don't think she sucks as an antagonist so much as she sucks as a Proper Villain, which she was half-written as. I would've preferred that she be a lot less anime and a lot more Yzma-cum-Candace Flynn, she excels at that, and I like her voice acting well enough, I like it when her appearances slant towards physical comedy.>hard to believe that Sylvie would believe mera so quicklyAgreed. I get that Sylvie's supposed to be this, like, clueless savant type with his whole booksmart-streetdumb schtick, but that kinda tests the limits of believability in a way that beefsheepbeef doesn't, since it wasn't some throwaway gag when he saw this conspicuous duo haphazardly crowbaring open crates of priceless museum artifacts in the middle of the night in the midst of an active robbery and legit thought that wasn't sus at all.
lizanthropy>>3926460>>3926047It's ultimately a minor point, though, since I don't mind the basic idea of Sylvie being kinda dim about the real world, in fact, here's a pretty great Tumblr post about exactly what kind of dumb jerk Sylvie can be: gremlinaristocrat.tumblr.com/post/735639954126979072. My issue is more in how I get this sense of how little thought went into him compared to Gio and Molly, Ramsay, Naven, and even, I'd argue, Percy, who despite being just as much a surreal idiot, is written as much funnier than Sylvie.But yeah, you can see Sylvie's whole ass in that fight: deep-set insecurity, a delusional adherence to being mature, fragile masculinity, violent frustration, general arrogance, overall jerk attitude, I could go on.>if mera manipulated him by stroking his egoShe kinda did manipulate his ego to goad him into fighting Molly and Giovanni by implying that he was too much a weak child to take on some dangerous robbers, which honestly might've been true, given his being beaten by a(nother) child and the soup guy, which absolutely did not need to happen, but yeah, tricking him with an extremely obvious lie is a minor character decision that points to what I think might be a major issue with his writing.I think Mera could've played the long game and gotten him to trust and pity her like days or weeks back, and thus, gotten him to help her out, first, as a psychiatrist, then, as a powerful, manly epithet user who could help her steal the Arsene Amulet, then stringing him along and unleashing him on others by gently stroking his tender teenage boy ego. That'd even score her some cool villain points, duping this alleged genius into effectively being her lackey!Yeah, that could work, you know, if you're interested in a direction where they have more of a relationship.I'm kind of on the fence there, I kinda like how EE keeps them light.>neat parallelOh, sorry, could you clarify? Parallel in what sense?
>>3926457>we aren't supposed to not know anything about ACWhoops, I meant "aren't supposed to know anything," since Blaber mentioned that AC had some potential spoilers for EE.
>>3917859https://twitter.com/47moo
>>3921398High6broamylala
>>3916978Fuck is going on with Squidward in this
I need him desu
Dragon boy
>>3926462Paralel in the sense that both Molly and Mer are manipulative and tend to use their wits to their advantage haha
capabada>>3930468Oh, yeah! I hadn't thought of that angle!There could be a really strong parallel if they'd brought back the AC dynamic Mera and Sylvie had and did some more exploration with Molly and Sylvie's relationship.There's actually a lot of character-parallelism in EE.Mera and Molly are both smart manipulators Sylvie followed because they (for Mera, at least in AC) provided some form of emotional fulfillment, but Mera played Sylvie entirely for her advantage and ruined him a little, while Molly is a friend to Sylvie in all honesty. While Mera's epithet brings her pain and makes it impossible for her to participate in the outside world like a normal person, Molly's epithet takes pain away and is a refuge from the outside world.And as I noted above, there's a lot of parallels between Molly and Sylvie, I'd say much more so than in most other characters.Besides what I already mentioned, they both seem to come from bad families.They're both kids who are way way too young to be leading the lives of endless stress and work they deal with, but while Molly is stuck with hers because she's stuck with her family, Sylvie seems to have chosen his path and ignored his family, so Sylvie seems to have a distinct degree of privilege that Molly clearly doesn't.They're both very smart, but both rather innocent in certain ways about the world, and Sylvie is booksmart whereas Molly is streetsmart.Molly is great with people, while Sylvie has a repulsive personality that pushes people away, so Molly has friends, while Sylvie is alone.They are also powerful epithet users whose epithets seem to relate to some manner of dulling sensation: Molly has numbness, Sylvie has sleep.They both also seem like they would harbor some inner darkness to their psyches: Molly's ennui and Sylvie's insecurity. They also seem to share a certain disdain for humanity, Molly from working customer service, Sylvie from his whole evil academic bitThey're also both very cute and soft.
spectral-fusion>>3930468>>3930488Anyway, you mentioned Molly not being allowed to do anything wrong?Yeah, I meant it with the whole Lisa Simpson thing, you kinda see the shadow of her in Molly, that sort of writers' favorite soapbox mouthpiece type of writing.I remember Blaber's first controversy during the 2016 election. I think someone like him would be the type to indulge the worst of a Lisa-type, hence the issues with Molly.>especially in PoPYeah, I think what made the writing issues there stand out was the fact that we've already been introduced to Molly. This is her 2nd outing out of what may be, I dunno, a dozen, and if we're supposed to follow her for most of the series as a main, then we should already at least get to know about the weird kinks of her personality, otherwise, she becomes uncompellingly flat.Given the shitty conditions she grew up in, I think you could start there.I feel like she could come around to having a certain degree of arrogance and distrust of others' intentions and competency from how she's always been and always had to be the smartest, most competent person in the room all the time.It'd kinda sting to see how it would play out if ever she hypothetically lost patience with Giovanni and made him think she considered him dumb, and she can't really manipulate him into thinking otherwise as much because she's so emotionally open and vulnerable around him.Maybe as she grows up, she comes around to outright disregarding the thoughts and maybe even feelings of people getting in the way of what she thinks is important. Like say, Phoenica, since she's, you know, an airhead.And usually, she'd be able to keep those thoughts to herself, she's Little Miss Retail, after all, but maybe in a heated moment, she might lash out and hurt someone in the casual way someone like Sylvie might just do all the time.
mouseshift>>3930490>>3930468Oh, and speaking of Sylvie being mean,A pretty recent post on Blaber's Tumblr mentioned him writing the novelization for the first couple EE storylines and him having some trouble with Sylvie's writing, because upon review, needlessly bringing a little girl's worst fears to life in front of her eyes seems kinda mean, and he's not into that.I don't know if he's listening or anything, but Blaber, if you are, then I say: lean into it.As I've said, Sylvie being a mean, cruel kid makes him a whole lot more interesting.I know it's kind of a cliche, but there's just something about the contrast of a cute soft design and a mean, vindictive personality. Evil Healers, or in this case, Psychiatrists, they're compelling for a reason, using powers that heal for evil, there's something just really solid about that, aesthetically and thematically.Sylvie being a jerk also reframes his loneliness into something more complex, and it gives him kind of an arc.But I already mentioned all that.Anyway, lean into it, not just for Sylvie, but for Molly, too!I think she could benefit from being a bit more callous when she feels free to be so and is annoyed by the idiots surrounding her. Look at how hard she's got it, she deserves to be cruel every now and then. Blaber had already described her as being a little, uh, ruthless? Well, should've shown more of that! If not for characterization purposes, then just because it's funny, goddamn.
>>3929768Spyro, you will always be famous.
